Honors College News

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By the time she was 16 years old, Tanya Panwala knew she wanted to be a doctor. She wasn’t certain what her specialty would be, but she knew she wanted to be a doctor who fought back against the kind of systemic inequities that she witnessed during childhood trips to see family in Pakistan.

Kashif Molwani, a 2017 graduate of Georgia State University, is one of 147 international fellows from 38 countries to be named to the Class of 2020 Schwarzman Scholars, a one-year global affairs master’s degree program in Beijing.

Her dedication and outstanding academic record made Clifvette Webb, a senior philosophy major at Georgia State University, the ideal candidate for the 2018 Honors College Parents Club Award.

Class of 2022 Honors College student Bailey Hatchett is a Georgia State University scholarship volleyball player and a Presidential Scholar.

Claire Smith came to Georgia State University ready to dive in. The Class of 2022 Presidential Scholar will major in math with a focus in managerial sciences with the plan to pursue a career as an operational research analyst.

Georgia State University Honors College Class of 2022 Presidential Scholar Hannah Mendoza has resilience forged from experience. After moving across the country and succeeding in high school, she became the first person in her immediate family to attend college.

While many new Panthers come from hometowns far away from Georgia State University’s downtown Atlanta campus, few have come as far as Class of 2022 Presidential Scholar Sangha Park.

Volleyball player and Honors College student Madelyn Ott (B.S.W. ’19) aims to help others as a social worker.

Josh Krivanek, a Class of 2022 Georgia State University Presidential Scholar, will major in education. His dream is to teach high school social sciences then eventually move into high school administration.

Inzul Motiwala, a senior psychology major, is the 2018 recipient of the Georgia State Honors College Young Alumni Advisory Board Scholarship.

Drashti Zalavadia, a Class of 2022 Georgia State University Honors College Presidential Scholars, spent her summers as a hospital volunteer and emergency medical responder.

Class of 2022 Georgia State University Honors College Presidential Scholar Andrew Soule plans to pursue a joint MD/Ph.D. program with a dual major in neuroscience and biology.

Two new administrators have joined the staff of the Honors College at Georgia State University—one leading the Honors College at Perimeter College and the other overseeing development and fundraising at the downtown Atlanta campus.

Sydney Price is a Class of 2022 Presidential Scholar in the Georgia State University Honors College whose academic and career goals are tied to her dedication to community service.

College of Education & Human Development doctoral student Jacob English is one of five graduate students awarded a 2018 NCAA Graduate Student Research Grant.

Kevin Vettickatt (B.S. ’22), an Honors College student and Presidential Scholar, refuses to let setbacks keep him down and has his sights set on an emerging industry.

The London Experience allows Georgia State Honors College students from all majors to intern in London and other parts of the United Kingdom. The program’s global approach helps interns acquire an international perspective and gain valuable career insight.

Georgia State University is ranked the second most innovative university in the nation and second in the country for its commitment to undergraduate teaching in the 2019 Best Colleges edition of U.S. News & World Report magazine.

Bill Bolling, founder of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, will deliver the sixth annual Georgia State University Honors College Founder’s Lecture on Oct. 15.

Hainer Sibrian, an alumnus of the Honors College at Georgia State University, has received a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship.

Meklit Gebru, a junior studying international economics and Spanish at Georgia State University, is one of over 1,201 American undergraduate students from 363 colleges and universities across the U.S. selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to study or intern abroad during the Summer 2018 Application cycle.

Two Georgia State University Honors College students have received places on Fulbright Summer Institutes, one of the most prestigious and selective summer scholarship programs operating world-wide.

GSURC gives students the opportunity to present their research discoveries and innovative ideas to students, faculty and staff.

Life isn’t a competition for Sai Maddali. But you could understandably think that competition is his life. Throughout his time at Northview High School in Johns Creek, GA, the Georgia State University Presidential Scholar of the Class of 2021 was always seeking out that next challenge, the next achievement.

It’s a familiar story: the teenager finding the closeness and familiarity of her small, rural hometown to be oppressive, stifling. She can’t go anywhere without running into someone she knows.

You only get out what put in. You can’t reap the rewards without putting in the work. Georgia State Presidential Scholar of the Class of 2021 Brianna Smith has never had a problem doing the work. It was finding enough to challenge her.

25,400, or so, individuals from all over the world are currently undergraduate students at Georgia State University. Rachel Davis is one of them. But to think of Rachel as 1-in-25,400 is to underestimate the Class of 2021 Presidential Scholar, though being identified as a “statistic” is unlikely to bother her.

The Georgia State University Presidential Scholar of the Class of 2021 has found exactly what he was looking for.

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Kiana Nicholas, a graduate of Georgia State University, can almost see campus from her post at CNN.

Kiana wanted a nontraditional university, and she chose Georgia State for the internship opportunities provided by its urban location.

Nitheyaa Shree entered her first semester of college with the typical freshman priorities: getting acclimated to new academic challenges, learning her way around an unfamiliar city, settling into her new living quarters, making new friends, and so on.

Unless they’ve been tipped off that there are teasers or hidden scenes buried within or after the scrolling list of names and locations that follow movies, most people check out when the closing credits start rolling.

ATLANTA—The London Experience allows Georgia State Honors College students from all majors to intern in London and other parts of the United Kingdom. The program’s global approach helps interns acquire an international perspective and gain valuable career insight.

“Don’t go to college with a plan. Don’t go to college thinking you’re smart.”

ATLANTA–Civil rights pioneer and author James Meredith will deliver the Founders Lecture, “Public Education: The Critical Civil Rights Issue of Our Time,” at Georgia State on Wednesday, Oct. 25.

Nia Mitchell (B.S. ‘19) is a presidential scholar with med school dreams and a compassionate heart

ATLANTA—The Georgia State University Honors College will endow the Herndon Human Rights Initiative with a $200,000 grant from the Rich Foundation.

Wunderkind Will Anderson (B.A., B.S. ’17) has been outdoing the world for years. At just 21, he’s a globetrotting archaeologist, published author, athlete, humanitarian and opera singer who loves taking care of bones.